Russian Provisional Government

The Russian Provisional Government was a provisional government that ruled over Russia between 15 March and 8 November 1917 during the Russian Revolution. Led by Alexander Kerensky, the government consisted of the moderate socialist Trudoviks, the conservative Octobrist Party, and the revolutionary Socialist Revolutionary Party, and it was opposed to both monarchism and communism. The government abolished capital punishment, declared the independence of Poland, restored the independence of Finland, established universal suffrage, confirmed freedom of speech and of the press, and liberty of the assembly. The government would later clash with the Bolshevik Petrograd Soviet during the July Days of 1917, and the government was overthrown during the October Revolution (the Julian calendar identified it as during October, but the Gregorian calendar has it taking place in November 1917).